EASTERBROOK, W.T.

Farm Credit in Canada

Toronto, University of Toronto Press. 1938. (Cloth) Very good plus. 260pp. Ex-lib. Stamps to title page, otherwise clean, tigh, bright. Red cloth, gilt titles to spine. Foreward by H.A. Innis. A pioneering study in Canadian agricultural history. Foreword by Harold Innis.

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Book number: 104524

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Agriculture, Canada, Canadian Prairies, Finance, Politics-Economics

EATON, (ELON HOWARD)

Birds of New York

New York, The University of the State of New York , State Museum. 1925. (4to) Very good. [106]pp. 106 plates in original portfolio. Lacking plate #28; two copies of plate #67. Portfolio 4to. Bound in drab-green cloth, cover printed in dark green. Portfolio with ribbon ties; ties broken, laid-in. Internal folding card-stock which houses the plates with some wear; card toned, creased, bottom fold splitting at corner. 106 colour plates of birds in very good plus condition, with little notable wear; only the lightest edgewear, as is expected with unbound portfolio sheets. Occasional plate with small number written in pencil in the margin. Else bright and clean; not toned, foxed, or otherwise blemished. "This series of 106 plates are reprints from the plates used in the work entitled "Birds of New York", issued as volumes 1 and 2 of New York State Museum Memoir 12".

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Book number: 200562

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Ornithology, Birds, Natural Science

EBIHARA, MAY; GIANUTSOS, ROSAMOND (EDITOR)

Papers in Anthropology and Linguistics

New York, the New York Academy of Sciences. 1978. (Mass market paperback) Near fine. 114pp. 8vo. In original blue wrappers. Wrappers rubbed; shelfwear. Else fine. Internally entirely unblemished; unread. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences; Volume 318 [ANYAA9 318 1-114 (1978)].

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Book number: 109798

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Anthropology, Linguistics

CREE; MOULIN, PIERRE MARIE CELESTIN, EDITOR AND ALBERT LACOMBE

Prieres Et Cantiques En Langue Crise; Nouvelle Edition

Hobbema, Alberta, Journal Cris. [no date]. (16mo cloth) Very good, no dust jacket. 414, 7pp. In red faux decorated leather with black lettering and decoration to front cover. Bound terribly and hnge tape has pulled away from the covers. Prayers in syllabic Cree. With an attractive wood cut on the cover showing a Native couple at the foot of a crucified Christ, with a teepee in the background. Not in Evans. Not in Banks. Peel 3 #5363.

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Book number: 121602

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Anthropology, Canadian Prairies, Cree Language, Native Languages, North American Indian

EDMONDS, W. EVERARD

Broad Horizons; Maple Leaf Sketches from a Prairie Studio

Toronto, Musson Book Co.. 1919. (Cloth) Very good. 224pp. Former owner's name. Peel(3) 4480. Foreword by S.P. Matheson.

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Book number: 104530

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Agriculture, Canada, Canadian Prairies, Ethnic, Fur Trade, Hudson's Bay Company, Literature, North American Indian, Urban

EDMONSON, MUNRO S.

Status Terminology and the Social Structure of North American Indians

Seattle, American Ethnological Society - University of Washington Press. 1958. (Cloth) Very good plus in very good dust jacket. 84pp. Chipped dust wrapper. Former owner's name. This book is a study of the way some American Indians look at their own societies. Using the terms created by the Indians to define their own social structure in their own languages, Mr. Edmonson presents and illustrates a method useful both for description and for comparative analysis.

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Book number: 104531

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Anthropology, Indigenous Cultural History, Indigenous History, Indigenous Languages, North American History

EDMUNDS, MIKE; TERLEVICH, ROBERTO (EDITOR)

Elements and the Cosmos; Proceedings of the 31st Herstmonceux Conference Held in Cambridge, England 16-20 July 1990

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 1992, 1st Edition. (Cloth) As new. 332pp. Frontispiece, illus. "In honour of Professor Bernard E.J. Pagel, FRS".

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Book number: 203807

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Astronomy, Astrophysics

EINSTEIN, ALBERT

Relativity; The Special & the General Theory; A Popular Exposition

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd.. 1920, 1st English edition. (Leatherbound) Near fine. xiii, [3], 138pp, [2], 8pp. 12mo. Rebound in striking red leather; spine with raised bands ruled in gilt, each compartment with decorative device in gilt, author and title compartments lettered in gilt; top and bottom boards with simple single-rule border in gilt. Binding tight; seemingly scarcely opened. Top-edge gilt. Foxing to fore-edge and bottom-edge. Foxing to half-title; else with only occasional spot of foxing at fore-margin and bottom-margin, corresponding from edge. Internally remarkably clean. Portrait frontispiece. Diagrams, formulae. With original 8pp of adverts bound at rear. An exceedingly collectible copy of this seminal work; truly, the importance of this work cannot be overstated. In specific regards to this edition, in addition to being the First English translation of Einstein's paradigm shifting work, it includes new text which was written by Einstein specifically for this edition at the request of the translator (Appendix III: "The Experimental Confirmation of the General Theory of Relativity"). The fourth appendix, "The Structure of Space according to the General Theory of Relativity," didn't appear in an English edition until the 14th edition (1946). [Relativity, 100th Anniversary Edition, Princeton UP, p.xx].

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Book number: 123663

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Keywords: Albert Einstein, Einstein, Fine Bindings, Physics, Relativity, Space, Time

EKBLAW, K.J.T.

Farm Structures

New York, Macmillan Company. 1917. (Cloth, 8vo) Near fine, no dust jacket. 347p, illustrations, tables. Discusses everything from location to construction to lighting to sewage disposal. Previous owners name small and neat to ffep.

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Book number: 104554

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Agriculture, Art, Canada, Canadian Prairies

ELLIS, J.H.

Manitoba Agriculture and Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Activities; a Memorandum from the Department of Agriculture, Province of Manitoba, to the Director of Prairie Farm Rehabilitation and to the Post-War Reconstruction Committee of the Government of Manitoba

Winnipeg, Dep't of Agriculture. 1944. (Mass market paperback) Near fine. 43pp. Graphs, maps. April, '44.

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Book number: 111344

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Agriculture, Canada, Canadian Prairies, Manitoba

ELLIS, J.H.

The Ministry of Agriculture in Manitoba 1870-1970

Winnipeg, Manitoba Dept. of Agriculture. 1971. (Cloth) Near fine in near fine dust jacket. 660pp. Illus. maps. Former owner's name. SIGNED.

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Book number: 104570

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Agriculture, Canada, Canadian Prairies, Manitoba

ELLIS, J.G.; ACTON, D.F.; CLAYTON, J.S.

The Soils of the Regina Map Area

Saskatoon, Extension Division - University of Saskatchewan. 1965. (Card covers) Very good plus. Two booklets and folding maps in cardboard folder. Illus. maps, tables, graphs and charts.

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Book number: 104568

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Agriculture, Canada, Canadian Prairies, Saskatchewan

ENGELHARDT, F.R.; RAY, J.P.; GILLAM, A.H. (EDITOR)

Drilling Wastes

London, Elsevier Applied Science. 1989, 1st Edition. (Cloth) Near fine. 867pp. Illus. charts, graphs. Essentially as new. Proceedings of the 1988 International Conference on Drilling Wastes, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 5-8 April.

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Book number: 203957

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Science, Oil Well Drilling, Petroleum

ENNS, ABRAM

Origins; Creation or Evolution

Rosenort, MB, Self-published. 1993, presumed first edition. (Mass market paperback) Near fine. vi, 55pp, [3]. 8vo. In original plain card wrappers, top cover printed in black; saddle-stapled. Faint spot of sticker residue at top corner of front cover; else wrappers only ever-so slightly dust-dirtied. Bright and clean. B&W illus. figures. Appendix and references at rear.

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Book number: 123437

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Evolution, Creationism, Mennonite, Religion, Religious, Science

EPP, FRANK H.

Mennonites in Canada 1920-1940; a People's Struggle for Survival

Toronto, Macmillian. 1982. (Cloth) Fine in fine dust jacket. 640pp. Illus. tables, endpaper maps. For the third volume in the series, see T.D. Regehr below.

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Book number: 104589

Catalogue: Sciences

Keywords: Agriculture, Canada, Canadian Prairies, Ethnic - Mennonite, Religion